Sunday, August 8, 2010
The Himalayan - parliamentary team, which arrived here on Saturday for an on-site inspection of areas affected by cholera, on Sunday collected information about the efforts made for the treatment and control of cholera and diarrhea in Banke district.Chief of the District Public Health Office Dhir Jung Shah briefed the team on the progress of the measures applied for the treatment and control of the diseases in various parts of the district.......... read more>>
Nytimes - THE wooden kitchen bar in the suburban home of Richard and Donna Majer has a canyonlike crack ripping right down its middle, which is exactly what the couple cherish most about it. It’s not just furniture — it’s a story, complete with a moral. “As I spend time with it, I see the beauty of the hard life the tree had,” Mrs. Majer says. “And it helps me find the beauty in my own life’s scars.”
The crack occurred three years ago in a storm that mortally wounded the towering oak in the Majers’s backyard. It was a family member; Mr. Majer had planted it with his father 53 years earlier. Devastated, the Majers consulted an arborist, who said....... read more>>
Khaleej Times - Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland reached her first final in 10 months with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Slovakia’s Daniela Hantuchova at the Mercury Insurance Open.
Radwanska, ranked 10th in the world, used Hantuchova’s double fault in the seventh game for the only break of the first set. She then used her counterpunching game to capture the second set, which included a 20-minute seventh game in which Hantuchova saved seven match points.
“I was feeling good here and everything is working,” Radwanska said. “I’ve played some good matches against some good players. Now, just one more.”......... read more>>
Gulf News - Dubai Saudi Arabia delayed suspending Research In Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry instant messaging until Monday as they worked to resolve the country’s concerns over the service, the state-run Saudi Press Agency reported on Sunday. The Saudi government had earlier said they would ban the BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service in the kingdom from Friday, August 6. But it extended the deadline to test proposed solutions as wireless operators in Saudi Arabia attempt to comply with regulatory requirements, the SPA said, citing a statement from the country’s Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC).......... read more>>
Guardian - Coalition plans to remove free milk for the under-fives were summarily dropped by David Cameron today amid fears it would remind voters of the "Thatcher milk snatcher" episode of the 1970s.Cameron moved so quickly that David Willetts, the higher education minister, was on live television defending the idea of removing free milk when the prime minister announced the U-turn, leaving broadcasters to tell Willetts of the change.
The idea of removing free milk had been the brainchild of the junior health minister, Anne Milton. The government expected opposition to the measure from the media, parents, nurseries, childminders and the dairy sector........... read more>>
(CNN) -- Risking their lives to help disadvantaged Afghans became almost a norm for Tom and Libby Little. "We raised our three daughters through what was, at times, just hell," Libby Little said. "A hundred rockets a day was a good day."
Family members lived underground to avoid bombings, she said. Yet they stayed out of a love for the people and a passion for providing eye care for the needy.
But violence prevailed on Thursday.
Tom Little, a New York optometrist, was among 10 people killed by gunmen in Badakhshan, a remote northeastern region of the country. The mostly foreign members of a medical team were robbed and shot one-by-one on a remote road. Their bodies were transferred to Kabul early Sunday, authorities said.......... read more>>
Al Jazeera - Torrential rains in flood-hit Pakistan have hampered aid efforts and are threatening to deepen a crisis affecting 14 million people across the country. Helicopters were grounded by the weather in the northwest, the hardest-hit region, while rescuers rushed to evacuate families in the poor southern farming belt of Sindh on Sunday.
Al Jazeera's Imran Khan, reporting from Hyderabad, said at least two million people have been affected in Sindh province......... read more>>
Friday, August 6, 2010
Al Jazeera - A Japanese oil tanker damaged in the Strait of Hormuz off Oman last month was hit by an explosives-laden dinghy, the Emirati state news agency has said.
The report on Friday was the first official confirmation that the incident that left a large dint in the hull of the M.Star was an attack.
An al-Qaeda-linked group said on Wednesday that one of its suicide bombers had hit the tanker to avenge the plunder of Muslim wealth.......... read more>>
The Hamalayan - GENEVA; Pakistan’s worst floods in generations brought on by torrential monsoon rains have affected more than four million people and killed some 1,600, the United Nations estimated today.
iol.co.za - Dog pounds in the Philippines are being allowed to kill stray dogs with vehicle exhaust fumes, local animal welfare groups said on Friday, a practice they claim is cruel and inhumane.
Irish Tims - MLNET, THE provider of wireless broadband to corporate clients, has “turned a corner”, according to its backers, and has signed up a significant number of clients in recent months, including magazine publisher Harmonia.
John Earley, strategic development director of Metronet UK, which offers similar services in Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds, is one of the main shareholders in MLNet along with local managing director Martin Smyth and technical director Carl Grice......... read more>>
The Himalayan - WASHINGTON US second seed Andy Roddick was eliminated by France's Gilles Simon while Czech top seed and Wimbledon runner-up Tomas Berdych struggled into the ATP Washington Classic quarter-finals on Thursday.Simon, sidelined nearly three months by a right knee injury, ousted Roddick 6-3, 6-3 from the US Open tuneup event in 69 minutes, winning 21-of-23 points on his first serve and 14-of-21 off the second serves of 10th-ranked Roddick......... read more>>
Economic Times - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has agreed to BJP’s demand for convening an all-party meeting to discuss the situation prevailing in the Kashmir Valley and steps taken by the Centre to restore peace and normalcy.
Zeenews - London: Women who gain too much weight during pregnancy have big babies, putting their children at risk of becoming heavy later on, a new study says.
IRVINE - On most mornings, Trojan Swim Club teammates Rebecca Soni, the World 100-meter breaststroke champion, and Jessica Hardy, the event's world-record holder, train on opposite sides of USC's swim facility. "I'm on the distance side," Soni said, "she's on the sprint side."
Soni and Hardy finally lined up side-by-side for the USA Swimming National Championships 100-meter breaststroke Thursday night and one of the meet's most anticipated showdowns.
By the end of the race the gulf between them had been restored........ read more>>
The Prime Minister will pledge Britain's support for "stability, security, democracy and prosperity" in the country during the talks between the pair at Chequers, Downing Street said ......... read more>>
m&c - Singer Lady Gaga has been inspired to write new music after hearing about the new Prop 8 ruling.
Gaga, real name Stefani Germanotta, was thrilled to hear about yesterday's overturning in California of Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage.And the 24–year-old, who is a vocal fan of the gay community, was so happy about the ruling that she 'instantly' decided to write new music about it......... read more>>
August 6 marks the 65th anniversary of the atomic bomb dropped by the United States at the end of World War II on Hiroshima. Another was dropped a few days later on Nagasaki. The bombs devastated both cities and killed more than 200,000 people. Thursday was the first time a U.N. secretary-general took part in the ceremony......... read more>>